About the Authors

Jinseon Jeong

Affiliations Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea, Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea

Young-Jun Kim

Affiliation Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea

Sun Young Yoon

Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea

Yong-Jae Kim

Affiliation Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea

Joo Heon Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon 302–120, Republic of Korea

Ki-Young Sohn

Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea

Heung-Jae Kim

Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea

Yong-Hae Han

Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea

Saeho Chong

Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea

Jae Wha Kim

wjkim@kribb.re.kr

Affiliations Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea, Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

Enzychem Lifesciences has developed a patented method to synthesize PLAG in a massive scale, and tried to find its applications. Enzychem Lifesciences is developing a therapeutic for the treatment of allergic asthma based on the data from this research. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ Young-Jun Kim SYY JWK. Performed the experiments: JJ Young-Jun Kim Yong-Jae Kim JHK. Analyzed the data: JJ Young-Jun Kim JWK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KYS HJK YHH SC. Wrote the paper: JJ Young-Jun Kim JWK.